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The new EDRIgram is out. Contents are:

1. Article 29 asks for safeguards on data retention
2. US wants access to retained traffic data
3. Free parental control software in France
4. Changes in the Slovenian Intelligence Agency Act
5. Lie detectors in Russian airports
6. UK teachers are spied in classrooms
7. Legal actions against file-sharers in Europe
 

My fabourite is No. 5. Dig this:

Meant to identify terrorists or other types of criminals, a lie-detecting
device developed in Israel, known as "truth verifier," will be first
introduced in Moscow's Domodedovo airport as early as July. The technology, 
already used by UK insurance companies, is said to be able to detect answers 
coming from imagination or memory.

And you thought that being fingerprinted upon entering the US of A was a pain.

The new EDRIgram is out. As usual, it gives you an overview of the past month's most important events in the European digital policy scene.  Contents are:

1. Telecom data to be retained for one year in France
2. Internet under attack on election day in Belarus
3. Slovenia : Draft Police act endangers privacy
4. Creative Commons license upheld in Dutch and Spanish courts
5. New anti-terror bill proposed in Denmark
6. Update on French EUCD Transposition
7. Damages on online defamatory statements in UK
8. Swedish Foreign Minister resigned following pressure on website
9. TACD debate on the politics and ideology of intellectual property
10. Commission progress report on electronic signatures